Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-01-15

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IT is stated that Senator Brown OF Geor-
gia will resign his seat about the middle OF
this month.
Gov. OGLEsBY declares that he is not a.
candidate for the United States senate to
succeed Logan.
Col. SwITzLER's report upon the indus
tries OF the South is in type and will soon
be before the public.
A MAN named Brown claims to have seen
the sea serpent in the Hudson, and says he
was sober at the time.
OFFICER o 'BRIEN, who was wounded in
the Haymarket riot at Chicago last May,
Is in critical condition.
EARLY Sunday morning Miss Pearl Jack
son. OF New York. and Berta Damon, OF Bos-
ton, soubrette actresses with a travelling
theatrical company, had a narrow escape
from suffucation and death in a small
room in the st. Nicholas Hotel, Decatur.
The troupe gave an entertainment there
Saturday night, and the young ladies slept
late. The mercury was 2O' below zero.
The porter built a booming wood fire in
the stove, and the stove bee, ming red hot
set fire to lot OF dresses that hung upon
a chair. The room was nearly mass OF
flames before the actresses awoke to find
themselves in imminent Hanger OF being
cremated. Nearly stifled with smoke they
managed to escape into the hall in their
night-clothes. Their terrorizing screams OF
fire filled the hall with ladies en- dishabille,
and bringing the proprietor and hotel at
taches to the rescue. Fortunately the
flames were extinguished with compare
lively small loss, except to Miss Damon,
who lost about S75. She had $700 worth
OF diamonds and iewelry in a drawer that
she tried to save before leaving the room.
The valuables were not injured.
j. L. Roy & Co., jewellers, Omaha, left
very suddenly Sunday night. taking $40 900
or $4,000 with them. They probably
went to Canada.
W.. MERRIAM, banker OF st. Paul,
carried the Rep iblican caucus, and will be
speaker OF the Minnesota house OF repre-
sentatives.
CAPT. LEMON, treasurer OF the Logan
fund, purchased Monday $4,000 worth
OF per cent. United States bonds on &C.
count OF the fund.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for a re-
union OF ex governors OF Kansas to be held
in Topeka next week. All OF Kansas gov
ernors are living.
WILL SrILLMAN, book-keeper in Wick
Bros. & Co.'S bank at Youngstown, o., was
seriously injured by an explosion OF gas in
vault OF the bank.
The report OF the senate committee on
transportation routes to the seaboard
shows some remarkable facts as to the
growth OF cereal production in the United
States.
JUDGE WooDs OF the federal court at In.
dianapolis sustained the indictment OF the
Republicans charged with election frauds.
Mrs. LOUISA C. STAUNToN was granted a
decree of separation from her husband,
Rev. Benjamin Staunton, at Brooklyn,
NY.
The bodies OF John johnson and John
Gibson, the firemen who lost their lives in
the theatre at Philadelphia, have been re.
covered.
In the federal court at Indianapolis Judge
Woods refused to release Samuel +. Per.
kins, the contumacious witness in the cleo
tion conspiracy case.
Mrs HENDRIcKsoN, OF Middleton, o.,
while showing a neighbor how she would
treat tramps, accidentally shot and killed
her 5-year-old daughter.
A sIxrEEN-YEAR.oLD daughter OF Mrs.
Jasper Smith living near Lehrsville, Pa,
shot and fatally wounded a burglar who
forced an entrance to her bedroom.
Two men named Cochran and Chadwick
got mad while snow-balling, and the latter
was shot dead by pistol in the hands OF
the former at Damopolis. Ala.
Mr.. MCDONALD will get the Democratic
caucus nomination at Indianapolis, al
though the fourteen Knights OF Labor are
for Bynum. Harrison has no opposition to
speak OF.
NORTH CAROLINA legislature assem- bled
at Raleigh Wednesday.
The river and harbor bill has been com.
pleted in committee at Washington and ap
propriates 81, los, $50.
SUNDAY the Seymour coal shaft, at Sey-
mour, Wayne County, Iowa caved in,
covering everything with ruins. Being q
holiday, there we're no persons at work in
the mine, and a mule happened to be the
only thing that was killed. The mine was
owned by L. F. Thatcher, and was leased
by forty miners, who were working it on
the cooperative plan. The loss OF the
shaft is complete, and it has not been de-
cided whether an attempt will be made to
open it again. This mine was the sole de-
pendence OF the place for coal, and the peo-
pie are alarmed at the prospect OF coal
famine.
The year-old daughter OF Michael Haw-
kins, OF Birnsboro, Penn, who was on her
way home from the store Saturday evening
with packages in her arms, being obliged to
cross the railroad tracks, which were OBJ
structed by q coal train. undertook to
crawl under. The train started, and be-
fore the unfortunate girl could get through,
her arm and leg were. The child died.
DECATUR Ql.) gamblers are being vigor
ously prosecuted.
ABLocK OF building at Greensburg, Pa,
burned Thursday.
CHAs. n. RAYMOND, dealer in supplies,
New York, failed for $500, 900.
JAMES JOHNSON was drugged and robbed
OF $525 by gamblers at Pana, Ill.
DETAILS OF the sensational suicide OF
two young girls are printed in Boston.
W. o. Dustin, dealer in dry goods, Gaines
vile, Tex, has assigned.
WORK is progressing on the Missouri Pa
cific extension from Boonville to Lexing.
ton.
WASHINGTON